To the W3C CSS Validator Team,
I am writing to this list to make an enquiry regarding the current state of the W3C CSS Validation Service, particularly in regards to aural CSS.
My question is this: Why does the validator still report the speech media type as 'unrecognized'?
For instance, does a certain feature of CSS have to go to Candidate Recommendation stage to make it into the validator? Ã– or is this just an oversight?
The reason I ask is that, at present, the specs are a bit ambiguous when it comes to picking a media type for aural CSS. On one hand, Appendix A of the CSS 2.1 spec states that the aural media type "is deprecated", but the speech media type "is valid, but that its meaning is not defined by CSS 2.1". [1] Confusing!
The CSS3 Speech Module [2] does state that 'speech' is the preferred media type for future use, but as this document is still a working draft, I didnÃ­t think that is was authoritative.
I would be very grateful if someone could help to clear this up!
Regards,
Jordan Clark
Website: http://www.jdclark.org
E-mail: mail@jdclark.org
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References:
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/aural.html#aural-media-group
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-speech-20110818